On Friday 28 September 2007 19:29, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Sep 28, 2007 09:47 -0700, Kevin Fox wrote: > > Is there a reason clustered metadata must be ZFS only? > > Because it requires changes to the on-disk directory format of ext3 in > a way that isn't likely to ever make it into upstream ext4 and we don't > want to support that indefinitely (adds a pointer to a remote MDS for an > inode and stores 128-bit file identifiers). Also, we need mechanism to > do name->value lookups in the filesystem (also doesn't exist in ext3). > Both of these are possible with ZFS.
Does this mean Lustre servers will some day run on Solaris, only? Can't imagine you aim at ZFS-FUSE on Linux... Regards, Erich _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
